I too love the sort of NASA punk aesthetic you get in for all mankind or the Martian but realistically it's a lot smarter to take what we've learnt from the ISS and improve on it.

From how I understand it from interviews he began writing the book without realising his mistake and only later did his team of fact checkers realise and by then it was too late. Its still one of the best pieces of science fiction ever so in fine with it